NAM.1975-03-63-13-164

Photograph: Ken Carroll's tank. Shows a tank with another in the background in a rocky landscape. Photograph album containing 241 photographs compiled by Maj Wilfred Herbert James Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), 1943-1944. Photographs are of locations in Egypt, at sea, in Tripoli and Sicily. With captions taken from a separate index volume. According to the war diary of 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), elements of ‘A’ Squadron were involved in a fierce battle at Tenutella on the 13 July 1943. The action, in support of 15th Infantry Brigade, resulted in the loss of six of the seven tanks involved to anti-tank and mortar fire. Nine tank crew were killed and four men wounded. Corporal Kenneth Carrol, a veteran of the campaign in North Africa, is recorded as having been one of those killed in action. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records his death, aged just 24, and the location of his grave at Catania War Cemetery. Associated with World War Two, Sicily (1943-1945).

World War Two, Sicily (1943-1945), World War Two, Italy (1943-1945)